These are my personal top 10 cryptocurrency investments for 2018. Since the cryptocurrency market is quite new, prices can be extremely volatile. Nobody really knows where the prices of all of the cryptocurrencies are heading, and some of the cryptocurrencies around are most likely overpriced at the time of writing this post. The best example for this is most likely Bitcoin itself, the current 'gold standard' amongst cryptocurrencies. Only invest the money you are prepared to lose, and only invest based on your own knowledge and opinion.

I am in no way responsible for any of your potential losses!

#1: Steem (STEEM)

Websites: https://steem.io & https://steemit.com
Whitepapers: https://steem.io/steem-bluepaper.pdf & https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit

Steem is currently ranked #39 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $633.812.844.

What makes Steem my #1 investment for 2018:

• Steem offers zero transaction fees
• Steem offers extremely fast transaction times
• Steem introduced a blockchain-based rewards platform for publishers to monetize content and grow community (bye bye Facebook)
• Steem's price has been rising firmly for the last year
• Steem's price is less volatile than most other cryptocurrencies because all users can convert their STEEM to STEEM POWER, which locks their balance for 3 months
• Steem's price is most likely undervalued at the time of writing this post

Steem can be bought on Steemit (after registration) and at Blocktrades.

#2: Ethereum (ETH)

Website: https://www.ethereum.org
Whitepaper: http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/what-is-ethereum.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

Ethereum is currently ranked #2 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $70.837.180.873.

What makes Ethereum my #2 investment for 2018:

• Ethereum offers low transaction fees
• Ethereum offers fast transaction times
• Ethereum introduced Smart Contracts
• Hundreds of cryptocurrencies run on the Ethereum platform
• Ethereum has a firmly growing community
• Ethereum's price has been rising firmly for the last year
• Ethereum is being supported by most online exchanges
• Ethereum is being supported by most hardware wallets
• Ethereum is being accepted for most ICO's

Ethereum can be bought from online exchanges like Coinbase and Litebit. Ethereum is being supported by most online exchanges. Find a full list by following this link.

#3: Litecoin (LTC)

Website: https://litecoin.com
Whitepaper: N/A (should be similar to the Bitcoin whitepaper)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin

Litecoin is currently ranked #5 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $17.361.647.459.

What makes Litecoin my #3 investment for 2018:

• Litecoin offers low transaction fees
• Litecoin offers fast transaction times
• Litecoin has a firmly growing community
• Litecoin's price has been rising firmly for the last year
• Litecoin is being supported by most online exchanges
• Litecoin is being supported by most hardware wallets
• Litecoin is being accepted for most ICO's

Litecoin can be bought from online exchanges like Coinbase and Litebit. Litecoin is being supported by most online exchanges. Find a full list by following this link.

#4: Monero (XMR)

Website: http://www.monero.cc
Whitepaper: https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)

Monero is currently ranked #10 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $5.572.464.470.

What makes Monero my #4 investment for 2018:

• Monero offers low transaction fees
• Monero offers fast transaction times
• Monero has a firmly growing community
• Monero uses ring signatures, ring confidential transactions, and stealth addresses to obfuscate the origins, amounts, and destinations of all transactions.
• Monero's sending and receiving addresses as well as transacted amounts are obfuscated by default. Transactions on the Monero blockchain cannot be linked to a particular user or real-world identity.
• Monero's price has been rising firmly for the last year
• Monero is being supported by most online exchanges
• Monero is being supported by most hardware wallets

Monero can be bought from online exchanges like Bithumb and Bitfinex. Monero is being supported by most online exchanges. Find a full list by following this link.

#5 Ripple (XRP)

Website: https://www.ripple.com
Whitepaper: https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(payment_protocol)

Ripple is currently ranked #4 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $28.655.190.487.

What makes Ripple my #5 investment for 2018:

• Ripple offers low transaction fees
• Ripple offers extremely fast transaction times
• Ripple has a firmly growing community
• Ripple's price has been rising firmly for the last year
• Ripple is being supported by most online exchanges
• Ripple is being supported by most hardware wallets

Ripple can be bought from online exchanges like Litebit and Bitfinex. Ripple is being supported by most online exchanges. Find a full list by following this link.

#6: EOS (EOS)

Website: https://eos.io
Whitepaper: https://eos.io/documents/EOS_An_Introduction.pdf
Wikipedia: N/A

EOS is currently ranked #14 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $4.611.219.468 .

#7: Cardano (ADA)

Website: https://www.cardanohub.org/en/home
Whitepaper: https://www.cardanohub.org/en/academic-papers
Wikipedia: N/A

Cardano is currently ranked #6 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $12.307.476.676.

#8: Zcash (ZEC)

Website: https://z.cash
Whitepaper: http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zcash

Zcash is currently ranked #22 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $1.552.146.269.

#9: OmiseGO (OMG)

Website: https://omisego.network
Whitepaper: https://cdn.omise.co/omg/whitepaper.pdf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmiseGO

OmiseGO is currently ranked #21 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $1.754.244.120.

#10: IOTA (MIOTA)

Website: https://iota.org
Whitepaper: https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOTA_(technology)

IOTA is currently ranked #7 on www.coinmarketcap.com with a total market cap of $11.115.452.783 .

Note About Bitcoin

I believe I have a good reason not to list Bitcoin itself in my personal top 10 cryptocurrency investments for 2018. In less than 10 years Bitcoin seems to have already failed in its main purpose: being a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Bitcoin transactions are way too expensive and take way too long to be verified by the miners. If these issues are not resolved soon, this could eventually lead to Bitcoin losing A LOT of its market share.

At the time of writing there are well over 160.000 unconfirmed Bitcoins transactions. Besides, the price of Bitcoin has been rising so unbelievably fast during the past couple of months that I am pretty sure it will get a severe correction soon. On the other hand, this could be a great opportunity to obtain Bitcoin.

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